Time is like flowing water, and 1912 is halfway in the blink of an eye.

The wars in the world are gone, peace is restored in the Middle East, the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula continue to be exploited, and the Italians and Austria-Hungary ships come and go here as if there had never been a war.

Is this really peace?

No, it's not!

Any discerning person can see that something is wrong. The whole of Europe is like a pot of boiling water, which has been forcibly lid. The force that puts the lid back on the boiling water is China. Now the steam power generated by boiling water is not enough to lift the lid of the pot, but they are slowly increasing, all the time is increasing, when the time is delayed a little bit, when the pressure in the pot crosses the red line, the condensed force can make the whole pot lid jump out of the sky, otherwise it will be the iron pot burst!

The British Empire, the French Empire, the German Empire, and even the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, the whole of Europe spent too much on military spending. By building warships and guns, they digested Europe's surplus steel, doused Europe's recent economic crisis, and at the same time laid the foundation for the whole world.

Although he will not polish his sharp sword in vain, holding the sword in his hand will not only scare people, but also fight for his own interests.

What's more, with the rise of China, the Eastern world has been digging up a piece of territory from the Europeans' sphere of influence, and in the remaining sphere of influence in the Western world, excluding the colonies of Britain and France, there is really no more land for Germany and Italy to stretch their strength.

Britain and France will not let go of their colonies, and even in the present international situation, Britain and France will not let go of their interests. The Germans must make the world change. Otherwise, they themselves will slowly suffocate in a confined environment. If Wilhelm II and the German military and political elite had accepted Germany's present political position, China would have risen high in the East of the world. The Europeans were able to maintain an equal footing with the East. But the Germans were unwilling, and they were always seeking a wider space for their own existence. The German Empire was not Prussia. The Germans did not want to return to the position of a European land power again, their eyes were already on the whole earth!

This is an unsolvable paradox!

The whole of Europe knows that in the event of a civil war in Europe, the centuries-old world hegemony of the Caucasian race will really be lost, and it will never be found again. However, the Germans did not agree with the existing system of the Western world, and they wanted to continue to be strong and continue to expand their living space. The existing market can no longer satisfy Germany's recourse to profits. So what can be done to change the system of the Western world? Only war!

The war provoked by Britain against the Ottoman Empire can be said to be a test for the Western world.

Today's Ottomans are different, and they are no longer just about geography and no interests. In today's heavenly world, geography and money go hand in hand.

Because of the oil fields in the two river basins and the Arabian Peninsula, how much tax must be paid to the Ottoman treasury every year? If this land belongs to the West, the benefits of the West, which is severely short of oil, will be no less than finding a new continent.

Now all the dreadnoughts and battle cruisers in Europe are heavy oil boilers, and even the Germans, who have always held on to coal in history, have begun to renovate the boilers of existing warships on a large scale after relieving the initial period of tension because of the existence of Nigerian colonization, and now at least 40% of the German warships have been converted to fuel oil. The fleets of Britain, France, Italy and other naval powers were not inferior to those of Germany in the proportion of their fleets burning.

Now the French army has tens of thousands of trucks, more than 1,000 heavy tractors and no less than 1,000 tanks. There are also a large number of steamers and automobiles in operation. At least one million tons of oil will be brought back from the Middle East every month. Its main coastal ports, the ports of Toulon and Marseille, are today the two largest oil refining bases in France.

The British have a greater demand for oil than France, who makes the British have the largest tonnage of the military and civilian fleet in the world. Moreover, because the British Army is small in number, in order to increase its combat effectiveness as much as possible. Its degree of mechanization is the best in the world. Even China's mechanization rate is a cut behind, and the Chinese Army, which maintains an army force of about 1.5 million people, really can't compare with the British Army, which has less than 300,000 people.

The advent of the internal combustion engine has brought war past the threshold of the 'steam age of coal and iron'. Walked into a new world. Oil has become the lifeblood of the war machine, so the oil-rich Middle East is seen as a new continent. Not an exaggeration at all.

Now China has forcibly pushed back the temptations of the Western world. But the whole world knows that this is just a two- or three-year postponement of a full-scale war. Or even shorter.

Just a month after the war subsided, China signed a new series of treaties with the Ottomans, and large quantities of military supplies and munitions were brought into the Ottomans from the Caucasus, including artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, ammunition production lines, and even large quantities of steelmaking equipment. In view of the military weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, China has made strong reinforcements.

The Ottoman Empire cannot escape this war, and it is impossible for it to turn to the Western world, because the lifeblood of the Ottoman Empire is the coveted goal of the Western world.

China will still not get involved in the war quickly, if the Middle East fights again in two years. Therefore, while arming the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Kingdom was also quickly armed by China.

In recent years, since the development of oil in the Persian kingdom to form an industry, the government tax revenue competition and the inflow of a large amount of private capital, the Persian royal family's ruling foundation has been firmly established. Although the opposition is still strong and has been mixed up with some conservative religious forces, the Persian royal family is no longer as precarious and ready to fall as it once was.

Politically and militarily, the Persian royal family is building up its own advantages and reputation. And more importantly, the Persian royal family is changing itself little by little, giving up complete royal power, and the dual constitutional monarchy has been won by the current king of Persia, Muhammad. Ali. Sha's identity. This Persian prince, who had gone to China, has now become the banner of Persian secularization reform.

The change in the royal family has divided the previous opposition forces, and the group that still insists on standing on the opposite side of the government. Now it is more and more deeply mixed with the conservative forces of the Green Religion such as the Báb. The forces are strong, but they are open on the Chinese side. There is nothing to be afraid of.

-- As long as the economy of Persia can develop better and better, the religious conservative forces will sooner or later be abandoned by the broad masses of the people.

How many wealthy people want to live a life under the conservative ideals of the Green Church? Chinese cinema also spread to the Persian kingdom with exchanges between the two sides. But it was very popular with the Persian people. Even the Kingdom of Persia itself has given birth to its own film industry. This is not the early silent film made to please kings and court ministers. That kind of film is a completely different concept from the film industry!

China rapidly expanded the Persian armed forces, but when the Ottomans were threatened, the only Arab countries that could stand up and help the Ottomans with complete justice were the Arab countries that belonged to the same heavenly world. Even in Afghanistan, China is mobilizing. If necessary, Afghanistan will send volunteer fighters to the Middle East, and there will definitely be a large number of Chinese Green Religious Defense Forces accompanying them!

Facts have proved that China is very capable of winning people's hearts. In contrast to the all-encompassing approach of Westerners, the Chinese government, which Chinese made money in harmony and was deeply influenced by traditional culture, preferred the new term coined by the old emperor - win-win.

Hello, I'm good, everyone's hello is really good!

So. The peasants of Ukraine are rich, so the herdsmen of Central Asia are comfortable, so Afghanistan is rich!

There is really a contrast to happiness, and when the herders and Ukrainians in Central Asia think about their own lives during the Tsarist period, their sense of identity with China can be imagined. Therefore, China's western region is stable, and Chinese manufacturing is rampant throughout the Ukrainian market.

Afghanistan is more aware of the changes in life, where this 'geographical miracle' is located, where there are a lot of mineral resources, especially precious metal resources, buried under the feet of any tribe. This place has gold mines all over the country. The content of chrome ore, chrome ore and copper ore is generally more than 10%, and the content of the best rich ore can even exceed 40%. Rubidium ore, cesium ore, bismuth ore, niobium ore, cesium ore, nickel ore, etc., all have rich reserves.

Of course. There are very few coal mines and oil reserves here, that is, there is a lack of energy resources. But what's wrong with that? China has coal and fuel oil, and China has never thought of investing in a large smelting plant here. Afghanistan only needs to be a supplier of high-quality concentrate to make this small country rich. Just like the countries of the Middle East in the previous life. A lot of crude oil is exported, and then fuel oil is imported from foreign countries. People are doing well, too!

Nowadays, Afghans are very satisfied, and they do not consider the difference between 'raw material origin' and 'industrial processed products'. For many Afghans, life is now a paradise for the true God.

As a result, China's infiltration of Afghanistan and Ukraine has not provoked large-scale hostility among the indigenous peoples. Except for some conservative religious forces in Afghanistan, the enthusiasm for China in Afghanistan as a whole is comparable to that of Pakistan and Railroad in later generations.

Afghan. When the Ukrainians have money in their hands, they will spend. Not every nation is like the Chinese, who do not make money and do not spend money, and Central Asians and Europeans rarely have the idea of thrift. In the case of Afghanistan, in 1906, the country's GDP did not exceed 5 million pounds, but by 1910, the per capita income of Afghanistan's four million people had exceeded 1,500 Chinese dollars, and the gross national product had reached nearly 30 million pounds. More importantly, Afghanistan has the full support of China, and the supply of daily necessities such as grain, non-staple food, and cloth is absolutely satisfying, and the price is unified with China, which makes the Chinese yuan in the hands of the Afghans become a solid purchasing power, and quickly enrich the lives of the Afghan people.

Now that the year 1912 has passed, Afghanistan's GDP target for this year is to exceed 30 billion Chinese dollars. Across Afghanistan, 250,000 mine workers told the world how productive they were!

Ukraine's grain is the main source of food purchased by Afghanistan, a country with fertile black soil that is now Europe's largest grain exporter. Although the value of grain is very low, as long as the quantity increases, the profit is still considerable. Because the problem of food shortage has always been a major problem that has plagued the development of human civilization, wheat and oats are all sought-after goods in the world trading market. Think about what the British did in Burma in the early days, and you can see how much the global food market is in demand.

And the current Ukrainian agriculture is not the Ukrainian agriculture of the Tsarist era, in the past, Ukrainians were engaged in agriculture, growing wheat, corn, barley, etc., and cash crops such as sugar beets, ramie, potatoes, grapes, etc. Farming techniques are backward, and heavy wooden plows are used to plough the land. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ukrainian government signed a large loan agreement to purchase various agricultural machinery, which rapidly improved the level of agricultural mechanization in Ukraine. And the industry has also been greatly expanded. They are developing fast in mining, ferrous metallurgy, and machine building. Sugar beet was cultivated on a large scale, sugar was developed, and horticulture (grape production) and animal husbandry (pigs, sheep) were also greatly developed.

Ukrainian peasants are not said to be richer than Chinese peasants, but their income level is definitely not low. And the good days now, in the eyes of the vast majority of Ukrainians, are brought to them by China. There are inevitably some pro-Russian hostile elements in Ukraine, but on the whole, Ukrainians have a good impression of China, and economically they have integrated into China's great western economic circle!

Liu Xian is now helpless about the prospect, he can't grasp the hearts of Europeans at all. In an Ottoman war, Italy and Austria-Hungary entered the country one after another, and the British instigated it behind their backs, although this cannot represent all the five European powers, but Italy represents Britain and France and Austria-Hungary represents Germany and Austria is very clear.

Unlike in previous lives, when the Italians followed Germany and then quickly rebelled, the Italians in this time and space were more closely related to Britain and France. The premature collapse of Tsarist Russia led directly to the British and French to co-opt the Italians, and the Germans tried to enter Morocco, which made Italy very disgusted.

Now the Italians' butts are still sitting on the side of Britain and France, and only one leg is left outside, and perhaps in the next blink of an eye, the news of the signing of the Entente between the Italians and Britain and France will come from Europe.

The pressure on the shoulders of Germany and Austria-Hungary was also very high, they were two-on-three, and because of the Polish problems, the friendship between the Germans and St. Petersburg could not stand the test at all. Under this international situation, Liu Xian did not think that the Germans could still actively provoke a war that would bring tens of millions of people to death as they did in the original time and space.

Liu Xian also firmly believes that the Europeans will not deliberately challenge China, so how will the Germans and British, who will break out in two or three years at most, solve their own problems?

Looking at a certain piece of red and a piece of white on the map of Europe, and then looking at the two major military blocs of Ottoman, Britain, France, Italy and Germany and Austria, will they do what they think?

Liu Xian had a lot of things in his head, but he couldn't figure it out.

What kind of answer will the British and German pursuers hand over? (To be continued.) )